Margaret Hostetler
List of John Benjamins publications in which Margaret Hostetler is involved.
Articles
2012 The politeness of a disciplining text: Ideal readers in Ancrene Wisse Journal of Historical Pragmatics 13:1, pp. 29–49 | Article
This paper uses linguistic theories of politeness to shed light on the functioning of certain discourse features of the Early Middle English Ancrene Wisse. It has been suggested that Ancrene Wisse is generically impolite because of the presence of conventional misogynistic tropes; however, the… read more
2005 The characterized reader in Hali Meiðhad and the resisting reader of feminist discourse on medieval devotional texts Journal of Historical Pragmatics 6:1, pp. 87–111 | Article
What has emerged from much recent feminist analysis of medieval devotional literature is a model of reading based on a theorized resistance by the female reader to the misogyny of the medieval text. Yet this model of reading limits opportunities for positive communication between text and reader.… read more